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• Reading Comprehension Task (p. 103) – Required reading material: ‘The Good Life’
pp. 95-101. [20 points]

1. Instrumental Good – Ultimate Good

According to Aristotle, Ultimate Good is definitely better than Instrumental Good.
Instrumental Good is a means to achieve something else or some other end, Ultimate
Good is also a part of Instrumental Good. Ultimate Good, as explained by Aristotle,
is happiness because it is an end itself.

2. Pleasure – Happiness
For Aristotle, Pleasure is very different from happiness. Pleasure is not all good,
because of that, it is not a goal of every person. We can find pleasure in different
things or activities, whether good or bad. Happiness, on the other hand, is the
ultimate end. In the Aristotelian sense, happiness is “living well and doing well.”

3. Virtue – Vice
Aristotle described Virtue essentially through habit and procedure
preferably than through logic and command. Vice was explained in theology as the
inattentive of virtue, but Aristotle present virtue as a manner between two contrast
"vices".

4. Intellectual Virtue – Moral Virtue

Intellectual Virtue is gained from teaching while Moral Virtue is gained from a
person’s habit. Key intellectual virtues are wisdom, which is guides ethical behavior,
and understanding, which is gained from scientific endeavors and contemplation.
Some key moral virtues are generosity, temperance, and courage.

5. Science and Technology – The Good Life

Good life and virtue are who we are and how we interact with science and
technology as parts of our environment as well as each other. Science and technology
is a part of our world. It can help us achieve a good life. If the practitioners of science
and technology possess a good virtue, it can further help us achieve a good life.
Without virtue, science and technology can endanger or even corrupt an individual
because of the potential it possesses.
 Field Study (p. 109) – Required viewing material: That Sugar Film (2014) [20 points]

Invert Sugar Syrup

Hidden Sugar Found on the Label

Inverted sugar syrup, also called invert syrup and invert sugar, is an edible mixture of two simple
sugars—glucose and fructose—that is made by heating sucrose with water. Just like any other
sugar, invert syrup should be consumed sparingly since consuming many at once may cause health
problems, such as diabetes.